Hatching with 2 broodies

[lizgarf]

Yay!!

 

[Teila]

 

[lizgarf]

So precious!!

 

[coops gone crazy]

So.......stinking......cute!!!! Man.....you are making me even more antsy now!


My girls are sitting tight so far. Geeze! We are about a week in already!



PS- ordered 2 dozen brown ceramic eggs for the nest boxes to try to break the egg eating. That should tweak their little beaks!!!!

 

[Teila]

OK ... last three for today! Tee hee Coops, sorry about the antsy!

 

[lizgarf]

Holy cow!!! So incredibly sweet.
Oh, I hope mine goes this well - 2 surviving the hatch would be just fine with me!
Let us know how the ceramic eggs work, Coops! That sounds like a tough situation (no pun intended). By the way, my non-broody, Grace, hasn't laid in about a week. I searched for her secret nest in the only are she's been ranging in lately and didn't find it; so who knows if the broody hormones are getting to her, but she just didn't get on the nest in time like the others.

 

[tommysgirl]

Omg! Omg! Omg! We have a chick!!

I am grinning too. Hatch a longs are fun! so glad for your three new little lives. It is magical.

So.......stinking......cute!!!! Man.....you are making me even more antsy now!


My girls are sitting tight so far. Geeze! We are about a week in already!



PS- ordered 2 dozen brown ceramic eggs for the nest boxes to try to break the egg eating. That should tweak their little beaks!!!!

We are a little over a week here. The ceramic eggs are a good call. I am looking forward to learning what else Cilla and the other broody girls on our thread hatch!

 

[coops gone crazy]

Checked on the broodys before bed. The silkie was on the roost. Helen in the nest box. Saw a broken shell. Pulled it out and tried to check the others in the dark. Helen isn't very nice anymore- with her limited sight she pecks first and asks questions later. Pulled some eggs out 2 at a time and tried to check on them/candle them. 2 of the FBCM eggs were cracked. I ended up opening them and they didn't look any different then a non-fertile egg- no development. The others were tough to tell. Nothing super reassuring but most of them are fairly dark and hard to see. They are dirty now too. Lovely. Tried wiping what I could off gently but some of it is just too stuck. Working another 24 hr shift tomorrow so will have to wait until Sunday to do much more. This may be a bust. I wish it was my silver laced wyandott that was broody instead of Helen. Ah well. If this doesn't work out I will buy more next time Broody (that is actually my wyandott's name because she started going broody at 6 months old) is well.....broody and let her try.

 

[lizgarf]

Checked on the broodys before bed. The silkie was on the roost. Helen in the nest box. Saw a broken shell. Pulled it out and tried to check the others in the dark. Helen isn't very nice anymore- with her limited sight she pecks first and asks questions later. Pulled some eggs out 2 at a time and tried to check on them/candle them. 2 of the FBCM eggs were cracked. I ended up opening them and they didn't look any different then a non-fertile egg- no development. The others were tough to tell. Nothing super reassuring but most of them are fairly dark and hard to see. They are dirty now too. Lovely. Tried wiping what I could off gently but some of it is just too stuck. Working another 24 hr shift tomorrow so will have to wait until Sunday to do much more. This may be a bust. I wish it was my silver laced wyandott that was broody instead of Helen. Ah well. If this doesn't work out I will buy more next time Broody (that is actually my wyandott's name because she started going broody at 6 months old) is well.....broody and let her try.

Sorry to hear it, Coops! As you know, my cracked-egg experience wasn't good. I think you're probably better off leaving the other eggs the way they are, rather than trying too hard to clean them, as that can cause more problems. I'm still worried that the limited cleaning of the eggs I did when the one viable Legbar egg was crushed may have caused problems. I guess I'll have a better sense if that was true in a couple days . . .
Sorry to hear about your 24-hour shifts! I don't know how anyone can do that.

 

[Teila]

Aaaw, I am sorry to hear the bad news also :-( Come on Team Broody, we can all do this!!
I feel kinda guilty but I did want to share a picture I just took .....